Is it a short film or is it a trailer, or maybe both. Who knows but it sure looks cool. One thing is for sure, I want more of the same, please. Neill Blomkamp, director of movies like District 9, Elysium and Chappie made this trailer/short film for the new game Anthem.
Flight Patterns is one of those albums that just makes you happy listening to it. I’ve had this on rotation for the last couple of days and I really like it. Lots of clever thoughtful melodies and laid back grooves.
Music for a less stressful life.
Here is a great release by J.C. & Kastil on Cabrera that is tricky to put a specific genre on. I would say it’s overall deep techno but there are elements of ambient and industrial noise as well. It’s a dark and edgy, almost apocalyptic world of sound we are thrust into where abstract modular mutated gurgles are backed by a punishing beat.
Best find of the week for me, though it was released over a year ago.
There exists a Part 2 of this release as well, which is more on the ambient side. You will have to head over to their Bandcamp site to listen to that as it doesn’t seem to be available on Spotify yet.
My latest modded Game Boy DMG-01 has of course all the usual mods but this time it also comes in an original box from Nintendo together with a manual and flyer. It’s up on Ebay but I suspect it won’t be for long. The yellow ones usually go pretty quick.
The Parallax EP by Opal Sunn is another recent Spotify find. Released on Touch From A Distance in 2018, this is beautiful progressive house music with a lot of soul. Bubbling arpeggio sounds, smooth somewhat trancey melodies and of course a steady house beat. Impressive stuff. I’m keeping close tabs on these guys.
I just uploaded a new video to Youtube where I play around with my HYVE Synth.
I wouldn’t call it a real performance though. It’s more like a demo of what this thing is capable off. I’m still learning how to use it.
Developed by Skot Wiedmann, the HYVE is a 60 voice analog polyfonic synthesizer where each key senses pressure, vertical position, and horizontal position. By pressing down and just wiggling your finger a little bit you can control the sound much more than with a normal keyboard. For example you can balance the stereo position of one voice by leaning the finger a bit to the left or right and the volume of the voice by how hard you press.
The layout of the bottom part of the HYVE is similar to that of a normal keyboard with the addition that you can play five octaves per key, all at once of course. In the top section the keys are arranged in different chromatic scales which makes it “easy” to play chords and drift though voices that would be pretty hard, if not impossible to do on a normal keyboard.
When you are producing techno music you need a proper techno t-shirt. I shot this selfie in my studio today wearing one of my cheeky tees from Future Past Clothing.
CSS Winner liked this site so much that they gave me a star for it.
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So, thank you CSS Winner. It feels good to be a winner and I have already found the right spot for my new certificate. :)
I’m often amazed of how easy it is nowadays to discover great new music. Back in the day before the internet you would have to rely on the reviews in a weekly or monthly magazine and then get you ass down to the local record store, hoping for a miracle that they actually had the album in question. Today you are just one click away to discover something amazing. Like this album Self Zero by Yorkshire’s Thomas Ragsdale that Spotify quite correctly assumed I would like. It was released in November last year but I just found it through Spotify’s excellent recommendation engine.
Ragsdale spent his formative years making music for TV, movies and advertising companies but gradually shifted into performing live. I would describe the style on Self Zero as Cinematic Ambient Soundscapes. I like it a lot. Check it out!
I have been modding a lot of old Nintendo Gameboys lately, but this has to be the cleanest looking so far. Actually the shell is brand new, but it’s also old. It’s a new old stock part aka NOS, something that has been stored somewhere for all these years. It’s in original Nintendo shell from the early to mid 90’s, but it has never been used, until now.
It still has the original color, meaning there is no yellowing, the logo is not worn out and there are absolutely no scratches or any other marks. Lovely.
The usual mods was of course installed: